Industrial Engineers are in high demand these days, with online job ads up 65% nationally since the beginning of 2011. Employers and staffing agencies posted over 21,500 new online job ads in May, the highest ad volume in the past four years. Another 21,250 new ads were posted in June, a slight dip from May but still 52% higher than June 2010.

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Employers and recruiters are aware that hiring an applicant with a criminal or civil background or who has falsified credentials may carry enormous legal thus a large economic loss.  To avoid this, employers and recruiters are relying on pre-employment background screening.  This makes sense because pre-employment background promotes a safe and more profitable workplace by protecting the employer form negligent hiring litigation, incidents of harassment or workplace…

VMS Systems: The Rube Goldbergs of Today

A complicated procedure for a relatively simple process, vendor management systems are the Rube Goldberg machines of today's recruiting industry.  Instead of connecting with a hiring manager via a phone call or email, recruiters work with all of the…

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Whether you’ve been in this business for decades or are just starting out, you know that recruiting is all about the Pursuit and Capture: attracting qualified candidates, and keeping and retaining the top match.

Kinda like dating.

Think about it.  As a dater, you have a dream: finding that special someone with whom you can spend the rest of your…

The best way to market your career for employment is through your resume. It is your first point of contact and first impression, and in today’s society first impressions count!  If you want to get noticed and to leave an impact, your executive resume needs to be written perfectly and professionally. In accordance with the human resources experts, there are five basic concepts on how to write the executive resume.

An executive resume must be able to market…

This weeks post is a little different, in two ways.

Firstly, it is in fact a Vlog, rather than a blog, and I encourage you to watch the video, focusing more on the content than the plain visage of your faithful blogger!

Secondly instead of a recruitment tip, I am focusing today on the global job market. Is it improving?

I travel a lot. Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and the UK just…

Recruiting business software improves capabilities for collecting, storing and managing employment-related documentation online

OCEANSIDE, CA   July 25, 2011 – Advanced Personnel Systems, Inc. (APS) upgrades its paperless document management capabilities within the latest Version 15 of SmartSearch®, an industry leading talent acquisition and applicant tracking system. New Candidate Portal options allow candidates to upload documents with their online employment…

Yesterday, one of our consultants had a question posed to her by a client. The question itself doesn’t matter, but it was, in effect, questioning her judgement and thus her credibility. She asked me how she should handle it.

I told her she needed to back herself 100%. This is critical for recruiters. A client has retained us to provide them with advice on who they should employ in their organisations. If we make a recommendation it’s for a reason, and we need to be able to support…

One of the major functions of HR or Applicant Tracking System is to be able to consolidate resumes into a single, searchable applicant database.

This short, 4 minute video shows how easily and quickly you can accomplish this when using an ATS that automates this process.  This demo shows how ApplicantStack parses out the information from the resume and imports it into the database.

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This provides and overview of how to collect voluntary self-identification information (i.e. gender, ethnicity and race) from applicants for recruitment compliance programs like EEOC and OFCCP.

View the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNChSPTJ58o&feature=channel_video_title

Job Seekers: Stop Working So Hard!

I had someone apply for 15 of our job openings the other day. Fifteen! And all the job openings called for completely different skill requirements. Before even opening this person’s resume I’m thinking: What a waste of my time. Just seeing those 15 messages in my inbox, I was completely turned off. I didn’t even want to look at his resume,…

Ever had an awful boss? I’ll bet he or she had some or maybe most of these bad traits:

Control Junkie: Has a tough time truly delegating or letting go. Has an opinion about everything.

Being Right: Even if your boss is usually right, it feels bad to think that you are generally wrong.

Rude: Bosses too often fail to say…

While all recruitment marketing efforts are focused on hires, it's qualified candidates that we really want or need.  And the more, the better.  I've talked before on how to measure qualified candidates in your recruitment funnel but that only works if you know what a…

The resume services team from ResumeEdge, a Nelnet company and leading online provider of resume writing services, today released a new resource, “Top Ten Interview Blunders.”  People often spend countless hours working on their cover letter and resume to secure a coveted interview, but then make mistakes during the interview that can’t be undone. This new guide…

Despite rising unemployment, employers and staffing firms continue to place an increasing volume of job ads for marketing positions each month, making it one of the most difficult jobs to recruit for.  In May, more than 24,000 new ads were posted, the highest volume in the past 4 years. Although slightly down, more than 23,000 ads were placed in June, still representing a 23% increase from 2010.  According to the …

What is the number one challenge for a recruitment company owner, or for that matter, any owner of their own business, whose business is established and successful?

Jobs are being filled, good placements have covered targets for the next few months, candidates & clients are passively rolling in. Sounds like recruiter heaven, doesnt it?

But this is the time the Owner needs to be careful because complacency sets in quickly and then mistakes get made, client &…

A few weeks ago we received the tragic news that a good friend and long time colleague, had suddenly passed away, in shocking and totally unexpected circumstances.

Duncan Cunningham, who I worked with for almost 10 years, not yet even 40 years old, and with a young family, was suddenly gone.

In Australia, one of our most famous folk ‘pub’ songs is called “I’d love to have a beer with Duncan” by…